These posts feature news and tutorials for the PublishPress Permissions plugin. This is our plugin for advanced WordPress permissions.
The Post Expirator plugin allows you to choose an “expire” date for WordPress posts. The plugin has over 100,000 users and has been working reliably for years. We’re delighted to say that Post Expirator is now part of PublishPress and it has new name: “PublishPress Future”.
This week, we talked with a PublishPress customer who has a busy site with many posts from different authors. They wanted to create an “inbox” effect, where the WordPress “Posts” screen is like a personal email inbox for each author. In the image below, you can see posts from multiple different authors. This can be…
One PublishPress user wrote to us and asked about this situation: “I would like every user to get a place where they can enter their own journal entries that no one else can see.” This it is possible to set up private journals with the PublishPress plugins, and I’ll explain how in this post.
The Post Expirator plugin allows you to choose an “expire” date for WordPress posts. When your post is automatically unpublished, you can delete the post, change the status, or update the post categories. The plugin has over 100,000 users and has been working reliably for years. We’re delighted to say that Post Expirator is now part of…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: “Is there any way to automatically add a specific tag if the user is in a certain role?“ For example, Authors will always get “Tag A” added and Editors will always get “Tag B” added. Yes, this is possible with a little code. Once…
We seen a few PublishPress users report problems with embeds in Gutenberg. If they restrict permissions for users, they sometimes find that those users can not add embeds from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and other sites.
One PublishPress user asked us if it was possible to have different statuses for different WordPress post types. This user wanted to have a customized workflow for each post type. For example, this is a possible approach they could use: Posts can move between these statuses: Draft, Pitch, Assigned, Approved, Published. Pages can move between…
In another tutorial here at PublishPress, we showed how to hide other users’ posts in the WordPress admin area. This means that users will only see their own posts when they log in to WordPress. One PublishPress member asked us if it was possible to do the same thing for the Media Library. Yes, it…
This week, we’ve released updates for all of the PublishPress plugins. We have six plugins in total, each with a Free and Pro version. This images shows all six: If you use any PublishPress plugin, please check your site for updates.
The Role Scoper plugin was first released in 2010, but after a decade it is now officially retired. All the features you saw in the Role Scoper are now available in the PublishPress Permissions plugin. We’ve built an automatic update script that will help you move from Role Scoper. If you’re using Role Scoper, you…